Reshaping a Broken Culture of Marriage
Two Sundays ago, the Campaign for Marriage kicked off with a video describing how a broken marriage culture has seeped into the American Church - and Bethel Church in particular – and broken many of the marriages of God’s people.
Our culture has lost the meaning of marriage laid out in the Bible. As Christians, we have too often scandalously failed to uphold the institution of marriage and to model for the world the meaning of marriage. We see symptoms of this in broken marriages. We also see symptoms in flippant or negative attitudes of singles and dating couples toward marriage.
The Bible teaches that marriage is a central component of God’s creation (Gen 1:26-28; 2:18-25). The union of husband and wife mirrors the bond between Christ and his church (Eph 5:32-33). The Manhattan Declaration, a multi-denominational statement of faith regarding life, marriage, and religious freedom, describes some of the differences between the way our culture views marriage and the way marriage is defined in the Bible. A few of these are outlined below.
*See Tim Keller’s book The Meaning of Marriage, especially Ch. 3 for more on this idea.
**See The Manhattan Declaration for a defense of this assertion.
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